Guest guest Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 LOL -- yeah, we have been spoiled, when I was growing up all we had in town were some markets in town. Produce " isles " did not exist, it was the Produce SECTION -- from half to 3/4 of a wall that was filled with produce. During Harvest we'd have a VERY narrow isle that a shopping cart could barely go down. And things had 'seasons' -- NO tomatoes during winter except canned - so we canned our own. Ditto beets. Want fresh beets outside of spring or winter? wouldn't happen. Buy them in a can. Times really DO change! We often forget about 'seasons' and WHERE our produce comes from. Even still, often frozen veggies are better than the stuff you see on the produce shelf -- frozen peas are only HOURS old when frozen, ditto your various 'green' beans - they aren't using up their resources (nutrients) to stay alive in the produce isle. Corn is a GREAT example -- the super sweet varieties turn their sugars into starches as they sit in the produce section - even inside their green-leaved hulls.  So eat an ear of corn picked in the morning that evening, then eat a " fresh " ear of corn from the produce isle -- ICK! -- if you CAN -- do the taste trial - then eat some frozen 'white' (generally the white corns are your 'super-sweet' varieties - and you'll find that the frozen are above the produce section, and the fresh in quality of taste. And -- as always - you can help out mother nature -- but you can't force it go go any faster than the cells can go - you can keep them happy and they'll work a bit faster - but the process of becoming 'ripe' is simply -- well -- a VERY long and slow process. The bright side is that you can eat bananas which were harvested a month or two ago because they can take a long time to turn from green to the spotted yellow of a truly ripe banana. The down side, is that you might have to wait a long time for them to turn a bright yellow - and often, if you 'force' ripening too much, you can get only a kinda-half-sweet, kinda mealy texture to the fruit.  And it's really not 'banana' season yet! -- so just like the so-called 'tomatoes' in the produce section, you get a banana Xrossed for green harvest - like the UC-davis 'square' tomato that packs more per case, but ripen VERY slowly to a tasteless mealy tomato that is never 'juicy' or 'sweet' but is a cardboard imitation of a tomato like fruit. Just wait and be patient -- and they'll ripen - take one out and see if it makes any difference -- various sub-species of bananas can take FOREVER to ripen, which is why we can have warehouses of them and they don't all ripen at the same time - and the size (length and girth) of a banana only tells you that short ones come from one 'variety' (sub-species) and longer ones come from a different 'variety'. Each variety has it's own ripening time and length of time to ripe -- just like your tomatoes -- you can see a variation of nearly a month between 'determinant' tomatoes (which all ripen at once) and 'non-determinant' tomatoes which produce fruit all season long - in farming or gardening a moth to six weeks between one tomato and another is a VERY long time. There's a tomato that will produce fruit at 6 weeks after planing - from Siberia, and then there are those which take 60-80 days to produce fruit. A lot will depended upon the 'variety' of banana you have how fast it ripens - I'd be curious to see if boxing them up makes a difference with your variety. You might be surprised -- as would I! -- ONWARD IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE! Take care, and nature has it's own clock that it follows - you can tug at the hands a bit -- like you are doing -- but it still takes time -- and often - like the paper bag -- technology changes so old tricks don't work anymore. And the banana you are eating has been 'selected for' over time by the capitalists and Big-Agra to optimize profits, not for other traits which might cut into profits and cause a larger 'spoilage' in route or a shorter shelf life. Good luck! -- paul --  Dream Well. Travel Well.  May you Walk Your Path in Beauty. " Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " Carl Sagan. >________________________________ > >To: sproutpeople >Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 6:57 PM >Subject: Re: GREEN BANANAS > > > >First things first. I WANT YELLOW BANANAS. I never thought it would take so long to ripen bananas. I've never done it before. > >Live and learn. > >I have been so spoiled by being able to go to any store and buy yellow bananas. > >Melody > > >> >> Hey, the good thing about the apples is that you can then use them for a >> smoothie later. >> Waste not want not. >> Pam >> >> >> Reply-To: <sproutpeople > >> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:43:50 -0000 >> To: <sproutpeople > >> Subject: Re: GREEN BANANAS >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > . >> > >> > This is what I did BEFORE I read your very thoroughly detailed post. >> > >> > >> > >> > As I said in my previous post to you, tomorrow I shall buy some delicious >> > apples and follow your instructions. >> > >> > Oh, after how many days shall I check on these bananas? >> > >> > Thanks, Melody >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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